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Look up the word Calf in a old dictionary and you will get iceberg.
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a Fool in Calf's hide and Cat's skins, it is hard to say.
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I just heard about this happing to a "celebrity" in Calf. too.
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I just heard about this happing to a "celebrity" in Calf. too.
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I have a post up on the United Church News Blog with information on the relief efforts now under way by U.S. denominations in Calf. as the fires grow.
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There's also the event for young ranch hands called the Calf Scramble, where young kids and young cows pull each other to the finish line.
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But sailing eastward, they came to anchor again at a little island called Calf
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Gow was an able seaman, but was no pilot for that place, and which was worse, he had no boat to assist in case of extremity, to ware the ship, and in turning into Calf Sound, he stood a little too near the point of a little island called the Calf, and which lay in the middle of the passage.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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When the lighthouse was built on the Chickens Rock, the men who were to live in it were transferred from two old lighthouses on the little islet called the Calf of Man, but their families were left in the disused lighthouses.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892
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The new change which Midwinter's compliance with this request rendered it necessary to make in the course of the boat brought her close to the wind; and revealed, on one side, the grand view of the southernmost shores of the Isle of Man, and, on the other, the black precipices of the islet called the Calf, separated from the mainland by the dark and dangerous channel of the Sound.
Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856
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